What is Challenge Poverty Week?
The Poverty and Inequalities Partnership are supporting Challenge Poverty Week 2024 which is the annual national Campaign Awareness Raising Week led by Poverty Alliance Scotland.
The aims of the week are:
- To raise a unified voice against poverty and show that we all want to live in a more just and equal Scotland
- To build awareness of and support for solutions to poverty
- To change the conversation around poverty and help end the stigma of living on a low income
Together with the Poverty Alliance, the Poverty and Inequalities Partnership are all coming together to produce a week-long programme of video's, downloadable information and events around 5 Key Themes -
- Monday - Housing
- Tuesday - Transport
- Wednesday - Adequate Incomes
- Thursday - Food
- Friday - Communities and Volunteers
- Saturday - Reflection
- Sunday - Reflection
Please find our Challenge Poverty Week 2024 Programme below.
CPW2024 Programme >> [PDF - 232KB]
What is the Poverty and Inequalities Partnership?
In 2021 we developed a new Tackling Poverty in Dumfries and Galloway Strategy and to help us progress this work a Poverty and Inequalities Partnership was formed.
Our Vision
'A Dumfries and Galloway in which local action has driven poverty as low as possible and has mitigated as far as possible the impact of poverty when experienced'.
Our Objectives
- Outcome Objective 1: Tackling severe and persistent poverty and destitution
- Outcome Objective 2: Maximising income of people facing poverty
- Outcome Objective 3: Reducing the financial pressures on people in poverty
- Outcome Objective 4: Building individuals and communities ability to deal with the effects of poverty
- Enabling Objective 1: Building organisational and system capacity
- Enabling Objective 2: Addressing barriers to access
Within the Poverty and inequalities Partnership, there are four Sub-Groups, focusing on specific objectives -
- Sub Group 1 - "Tackling severe and persistent poverty and destruction" and "Building individual and community resilience to poverty"
- Sub-Group 2 - "Measuring income of people facing poverty"
- Sub-Group 3 - "Reducing financial pressures on people facing poverty"
- Sub-Group 4 - "Child Poverty"
Through Young Eyes Film Screening
Through Young Eyes is a short film produced by young people in Dumfries and Galloway that explores children and young people's perceptions of poverty and their own lived experiences of poverty.
As part of this year's Challenge Poverty Week programme, we would like to extend the opportunity to you to participate in open dialogue and listen to the voices of Young People and adults in Leadership Positions about their experience of Child Poverty in our region and what we can do collectively to Tackle Poverty.
These events are for organisations, services and individuals who work with and for children, young people and communities and are taking place on:
Monday 7th October, The Robert Burns Theatre, Dumfries from 2.00pm - 3.30pm
TYE Dumfries Poster >> [PDF - 1MB]
Friday 11th October, The Ryan Centre Theatre, Stranraer from 2.00pm - 3.30pm
https://www.povertyalliance.org/cpw/
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